I write to you this morning as the proud new owner of an Insinkerator! Joy! I am the first person in my entire family to have a garbage disposal! Hurray for romantic Christmas presents! I could really tell we'd been married almost ten years when I was thrilled to open that box. Yay!
And here it is, our first Insinkerated item, totally gratuitous (i.e.: we were not cooking, just throwing things down it for fun): the moldy shallot. Thanks for being here, friends. Who else, I say who else could I share this with but other appreciating bloggy peeps (many of whom, I am horrified to see, have had many, and much worse, plumbing problems — wow — I did not know — it was a lot like watching Judge Judy — I felt strangely better personally and yet sort of worse about the state of things-in-general after reading those comments/watching JJ. My favorite was from Helena: "We purchased the house new and over the years had a couple of water features showed up. We have a vaulted ceiling and came home from a party to find a waterfall. Our dear sheltie was calmly enjoying it from a sofa"). My favorite real-life line, though, had to be from the plumber himself who, being paid by the hour, said, "Well, I'm not great, but at least I'm slow."
Okay, darlings. I have GOT to get out of here today. Anywhere. Just . . . out. Bye.
And hey, the auction's up again! Double yay!
The mental image of the sheltie chilling and watching the water pour into the house cracked me up yesterday. Thanks for the laugh, Helena.
Happy New Years Alicia! I've bid on your lovely doll for the KIM Family. She's lovely and that auction will be go to the moon, i'm sure. God Bless * Katie
ok, i, too, love the insinkerator! i don't have one where i live now, but one o' these days..! My last house had one and it was such a thrill - how boring of me perhaps, but i pick garbage disposal over dishwasher anyday! must go peruse the auction now - happy epiphany today!
oops, just realized it's only the 5th - so happy epiphany tomorrow!
I love my garbage disposal too! Great gift. A word of warning though - I wouldn't put onions in there. The skins all come apart, stick to the blades and clog it up. Same thing with potato skins...too much starch and it bungs things up.
Enjoy - my Mom refuses to put anything down hers!!! LOL
I've never had a garbage disposal. I'm a bit afraid of them. Doubtless, I'd get used to the convenience if I had one, though.
Do you have snow down there? Two inches of the fluffy stuff were quite the shocker here when we opened the curtains this morning.
you gotta love an insinkerator, i do
they work so well, sometimes i dont even know its on
Yippee! We are getting our kitchen redone this year and one of the quiet insinkerators is top on my list! Is it the quiet one? Those are so neat.
the plumbing story was so funny... congrats on the garbage disposal! i have never had one and watch in envious delight when others flip the switch and whoosh! away goes the shallot.
aren't disposals the best? really, mine brings joy to me every day. have fun playing with your new toy.
Yea! Disposals are wonderful aren't they?! No more of the really yucky stuff in the garbage.
Our water story involved the main water line into the house from the street cracking (the house is only 5 years old, too) and water pouring into our (finished) basement. We discovered it one morning when my husband was downstairs and asked why the carpet was all squishy. My son thought it was very cool when the backhoe showed up to dig a hole in the front yard in order to pull the old line out and pull a new line through. Five days without running water makes you really appreciate it!
Oooh! You have great patience. I would have blown a gasket (get it? plumbing joke..) if a p;umber i was paying said that!
Yay! Enjoy your garbage disposal--they're a good thing indeed. And the little earrings, flowers, and lingerie are nice in the first decade, but the gifts definitely get more practical at the decade mark, don't they? I am loving my all-the-bells-and-whistles stand mixer! ;)
I once got a new refrigerator for my birthday and I could not contain my glee.
There was an article around Thanksgiving time quoting a plumber as saying the day after Thanksgiving is the number one busy day for plumbers due to the massive amounts of potato and carrot peelings going down the disposals and clogging the lines. Enjoy, but as with all things, use in moderation!
Ohh!! My washingmachine dont work´s as I wants to. I soon have to buy a new one and it is not a very cheep machine.
I do understand your joy of having insinkerator and get hot water.
from Liviro
If you have an Insinkerator how do you feed your compost pile?
Happy insinkerating!
Insinkerators rock! Although I call it a "garborator" - I think that's a Canadian thing?? I was laughed at tremendously when I said garborator when I lived in Texas...that and "about" (aboot!). Happy New Year to you, Alicia!
OMG thanks for the chuckles, I really needed that. Glad everything is up and running and being chewed up :) Loved the quote from the plumber
Congrats, but I just got rid of ours!
My brother is a plumber in NYC and he was just telling me the other day about he was talking to his boss about how he's pretty slow, but that at least he does a good and thorough job. Even as a plumber, he just barely makes a living wage.
Don't know if you've ever heard of it, but after sending the likes of stinky old moldy shallots down, it's freshens things up to send part of a lemon down afterwards.
I think I once clogged up my MIL's plumbing in her nice old, brick house in St. Louis by sending too many potato peels down at the same time, even through the disposal. It was the holidays, too, of course, with no place to do the dishes. I think she still likes me.
I've done the potato peel clog too. Since there are men in my house, but no "handy" men I have been reduced to doing all those jobs myself. I got the drain unplugged and since then have fitted all new pipes under the sink and installed a new faucet. I've also rewired several light fixtures and poured concrete on the porch. Growing up in a family where my parents fixed almost everything themselves, I've been stymied to find my own family so lacking in any ability to repair things.